A video posted to Youtube shows four vehicles running red lights in Richmond in the span of ten minutes.Screenshot / Youtube

A Richmond driver has shared footage of what appears to be shockingly brazen behaviour on local roads.

A video posted by YouTuber am0s.x shows four vehicles running red lights in the span of ten minutes last week in Richmond’s east Cambie neighbourhood, and these aren’t just vehicles on the wrong side of a yellow light. In each of the instances, the drivers go well out of their way to cross an intersection, completely ignoring the visual command to sit tight and wait for the green light.

Beginning at the intersection of Bridgeport and Simpson road at 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 31, the dash-cam footage shows a dark grey sedan bypass a line of idling vehicles by turning into the oncoming lane, then cruising through the intersection against the red light.

But it’s not an isolated incident. Just ten minutes later at Shell Road and Cambie Road, three more vehicles — a silver Toyota Highlander, a grey Honda Accord and a black Honda Pilot — decide the red light is just a suggestion, making wide turns to avoid oncoming traffic before once again crossing the intersection against the red light.

Bad drivers come in all shapes and sizes, genders and ethnicities, and can turn up anywhere (including one-way streets and off-ramps), but four red light-runners in such a short span is something else entirely. It’s as though Richmond’s worst drivers were all trying to get to the same place in a hurry. A road safety workshop, perhaps.

Fortunately, despite the danger inherent in each manoeuvre, no one was hurt.

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